Moving picture camera



Jan. 16, 1940. G. MALEK 2,187,356

' MOVING PICTURE CAMERA Original Filed June 2, 1937 JNVENTOR= GEORG MALEK AT TOIRNEXS Fatented Jan. 1 6, 1940 Q Q UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2,187,356 MOVING PICTURE CAMERA Georg Malelr, Vienna, Germany, assignor tofirm of "Eumig Elektrizitatsund Metallwaren- Industrie, Vienna, Austria, a firm of Austria Original application June 2, 1937, Serial No. 4 146,089. Divided and this application May 4, 133:, Serial No. 205,375. In Austria June 5,

1 Claim. (CI. 88-17) This invention relates to moving picture In the drawing I denotes the front standing cameras and'is a division oi my copending apportion of the casing in which the lens 2 of the plication, Serial No. 146,089, filed June 2, 1937. camera is mounted, and between which and a It relates preferably to moving picture cameras transverse partition 3 there are preferably housed 5 of the type in which the rear portion of the the drivingelements proper for the feeding for- Q interior space in the casing is divided by a longiward of the film and also the exposure shutter tudinal partition into two compartments of and the cut-out shutter of the camera. The rear which the one contains preferably the source of portion of the camera is divided up by a longipower for the driving of the camera, e. g., an tudinal partition 4 into two compartments 5 and I0 electromotor fed with current from a dry battery, 6 01' which the one preferably serves for the reu while the other compartment preferably contains ception of the source of power for driving the the film and/or the film reels. The front porcamera, e. .g., an electromotor 8 fed with current tion of the interior space, which is as a rule from a dry battery 1, while the other compartpartitioned oil from the two above-mentioned merit preferably contains the film 8 and/or the 5 compartments by a transverse partition, preferfilm reels 9. The two compartments 5 and 6 are 18 ably serves for the reception of the actual film closed oil from the outside,.in accordance with advancing members and'of the shutter (cut-out) the invention, in a light-tight manner, by means The invention consists in closing oil the two of sliding covers l0 and II. As shown in Fig; 4, compartments provided in the rear portion of these covers are shell-shaped or cupped, and slidthe camera, in a light-tight manner, by means able into engagement with guides provided on the Q of shell-shaped or cupped sliding covers adapted longitudinal partition wall. According to a furto he slid frombehind into engagement in guides ther' feature of the invention these guides are on the longitudinal partition wall. These sliding formed of grooves l2 provided at the edge of the covers are soconstrueted that they form the said longitudinal partition I, in which there engage compartment in coaction with the front standing in a light-tight manner "ledges I 0- and II pro- I portion or the casing, and with thesubdividing vided, respectively, on the inner edges of the two transverse partition and the longitudinal partisliding covers. For this purpose the guide groove tion, respectively, without the aid of any further i2 is formed in a simple manner by making the casing wall portions, so that "after withdrawal longitudinal partition in two parts, each edge of of the sliding covers the parts contained in the these two parts being so shaped as to form one 3 two compartments are completely exposed to view half of the guide groove I2. If the longitudinal and accessible from outside. 'lhefree accessi-' partition is made in one piece the guide groove bility oi the individual parts of the camera thus l2 may of course also be formed by a U-shaped provided is of great service in the use and reelement of channeled section attached to the edge pairing of the camera. r of this partition.

Further features of the invention relate to the The light-tight closure of the compartments particular construction of the guides provided on 5 and 6 is achieved on the one hand by the prothe longitudinal partition for the sliding covers, vision, as already. mentioned, of the guide ledges and to locking means for seeming the sliding it and II on the inner edges of the sliding co ers in he r position of closure. covers, extending beyond the rear portion'of the a A form of construction embodying the invensame, and by the engagement of these ledges in tion'is shown, by w y of example, in the accomthe groove it which likewise extends over the D n s. in which: entire length of the edge of the longitudinal parl. 1 is a side elevation 01' the camera a 'tition. On the other hand the Joint between the ing to the'inven lon. with I Slidi cover pa t y sliding covers and the front standing portion I withdrawn. of the casing is rendered light-tight by the fact l'ig. 2 is a plan view 01' the with the t t t om hat inwardly bent edges I I and ding covers out hrough along the e ll engage beneath the edge of the portion I oi in Fig. 1, for the sake of clearness. th casing (se Fig, 2). 3 is a rear elevation of the camera, the In order to secure the sliding covers in their a two-sliding covers being again shown insection, position of closure there is provided, in accordthe section eing in t s me' on the line ance with the invention, a locking device disl! in Fig. 1. posed between the'slidlng covers and the longishows one-oi the covers in pertudlnal partition wall 4. This locking device may be designed in any desired manner, e. g. as shown in Figs. 2 and 4, in the form of a bolt l5 pivotally mounted on the sliding covers. These bolts or fasteners are operable from the outside by means of knobs l8 and in their position of closure 5 engage beneath narrow supporting ledges 4 provided on the longitudinal partition on either side of the guide groove l2, whereby the sliding covers are held last in their closed position.

The invention is to be understood as being by 0 no means restricted to the constructional ex- I claim:

A moving picture camera having a casing which comprises a front part including the optical elements of the camera, a longitudinal partition connected to the rear intermediate the sides thereof, the driving elements of the camera being mounted upon said partition, two detachable side parts in the form of covers slidably arranged on the edges of the partition so as to form on both sides of said par- 10 tition compartments which contain said, driving elements, and guiding means for the covers comprising grooved portions on the edges of the partition and corresponding guide ledges upon the slide covers which engage the grooved portions on 1 the partition in light-tight manner.

GEORG MALEK. l0

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